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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONOERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. WOOTTEN', ot' Cressona, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, have invented an improved Retainer for Window Sashes; and I do hereby `declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters ot' reference marked thereon.

My invention consists cfa device, fully described hereafter, for retaining a window sash in an elevated position, and permitting it to fall when necessary. i

In order to enable others to make and use my invention, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, and in Which- Figures 1 and 2 represent exterior views of my improved sash retainer.

Figure 3, a sectional view; and

Figure 4 a transverse section on the line 1 2, iig. 3. l

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A represents part of the sash, and B part of the sash frame of a railroad car, and to the lower portion of the sash is secured a metal plate, D, by screw a a, a hub or projection, I), on this plate being let into the sash. Into the plate D and hub b is screwed a pin, E, to which is hung the curved arm or catch F, and in the back of the latter is an annular recess, e, concentric with the pin, this recess containing a coiled spring, m, one end of' the wire composing which is let into the plate D, the other end being connected to the arm or catch. The tendency of this spring is to maintain the arm in the position shown in iig. 1. In one edge of the frame B is let and secured a plate, G, on which is an angular projection, L, one edge of this projection forming a rest for the end of thearm F', as seen in figs. 1 and 3, the end of the arm being rounded and forming the segment of a circle of which the pin E is the centre, and the bearing point for the end of the. arm, on the projection h, having a corresponding form. A pin, f, on the plate D, passes through a curved slot, c', in the arm F, and limits the movement of the latter. On elevating the sash, the point c of the arm F will bear against the inclined edge, j, of the projection` L on the plate G, as seen in iig. 2, the arm being consequently moved back until its said point c has passed the most prominent portion of the projection, when the arm will vat once assume the position shown in figs. 1 and 3, and thus support the sash. By making the end of the arm F of the peculiar curved form described, the arm will be withdrawn from the plate G the instant any pressure is applied to the arm in drawing down the sash, the necessity of elevating the-latter slightly to release the arm, as is required in ordinary retainers of this class, being thus avoided, While the mode of operating the retainer will be apparent to any one the instant any movement of the arm is attempted;

I do not claim broadly an arm hung to a sash and adapted to a plate on the frame, but I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- The plate D attached to the sash, the pin E, arm F, and coiled spring m; in combination with the plate G, and its projection h on the sash frame; the whole being constructed, arranged, and operating as and for the purposeherein set forth.

In testimony whereofl Ihave signed my name to this specication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J. E. WOOTTEN.

Witnesses: l

CHARLES E. FOSTER, W. J. R. DELANY. 

